Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of ...

Francis Arthur Sutton M.C. (born England 14 February 1884, died

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22 October 1944) was an English adventurer known as "One Arm Sutton" after losing part of an arm by a hand grenade at the Battle of Gallipoli where he was awarded the

Military Cross The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level (second-level pre-1993) military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and formerly awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The MC ...

. A product of Eton College, Sutton studied two years of engineering at University of London before working in civil engineering in Argentina, Mexico, and the US after 1906. Sutton held a commission in the Royal Engineers during World War I. Following the war he built railways in Mexico and Argentina and also mined for gold in Siberia and Korea. Sutton travelled to China where he had purchased manufacturing rights for the Stokes Mortar that he provided to various warlords. He became a major general for the Chinese

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. In

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, Sutton provided hospitality to Aloha Baker on her round-the-world drive as her party passed through a war zone. During

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he was interned in Hong Kon

where he died of

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* Sutton, F. A. ''One Arm Sutton'' 1933 Macmillan * Drage, Charles ''General of Fortune: The Story of One Arm Sutton'' 1973 White Lion Publishers {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton, Francis Arthur 1884 births 1944 deaths Royal Engineers officers National Revolutionary Army generals Recipients of the Military Cross British mercenaries Deaths from dysentery British Army personnel of World War I Canadian amputees British amputees British people who died in Japanese internment camps British expatriates in Mexico British expatriates in the United States British expatriates in Argentina British expatriates in China